Excerpt from Fighting With Fremont: A Tale of the Conquest of California Fighting with fremont is a tale of this Conquest of California, so valuable and far-reach ing in its after results to the United States, writ ten to tell the younger generations something of the men and the events and the surrounding cir cumstances that made possible the winning of this rich and beautiful country for the Union and to give them a clearer comprehension of how one of the great stones was laid in the massive foundation on which the nation's present greatness has been builded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.